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  After taking my attacks head-on, the powerful oran began to harness even more power than before, all the damage she had taken fueling her powerful blood-colored aura.

  “Ahah… HAHAHAHA!”

  She ughed wickedly, pletely possessed by the power of her teique. Her Aura reinforced her muscles and size, suddenly making her a whole meter taller.

  Yes, she became a whole meter taller out of nowhere; her arms, legs, and everything else became even stronger and rger; she was being a giantess.

  At this point, her muscuture was rather close to what Fiery Hair looked like.

  And even more, it didn’t just extend to her body; her axe absorbed her prowing rger too. Her on possessed some magic properties; once exposed to her aura, it became rger and ged its design.

  The silver-colored axe turned crimson like blood, gaining several red jewels across its body, which tinued abs her aura. The on itself was incredible.

  “Oh my, aren’t you full of surprises?”

  She did mention that there was someone who once defeated her in the past, but that even after making their own fa, they were still defeated and died anyway.

  It seems that she had gaihe resolve to stop anybody from even doing such a foolish thing anymore; her position, apparently given to her by the Barbarian God’s cult as a “punishment” for her tribe’s "sins,” was doo punish her.

  If she didn’t want to see any more i people die stupidly, she would have to go out of her way to beat them to a pulp and teach them to be realistic.

  I see the burden she carries, but I also find this whole punishment ridiculous, stupid, and unfair. Whatever this cult is, it’s going down.

  But first, I have to beat her.

  “RAAAAHH!”

  With all her power and force at once, Mursha rushed towards me like a crimso; even her green skin had gained red tattoos resembling fmes, and a pair of red hrew in her forehead.

  This was certainly a ueique, something I had only seen in Murim and only wielded by powerful Immortals or Primordials.

  “Magnifit!”

  I received her gigantic axe attack with my sword, unleashing a powerful shockwave of golden light and shadows, imbuing my divinity of Yin and Yang into the bde.

  CLASH!

  The explosion of divinity and her aura colpsed into a huge shockwave, pushing away the people looking at the se, barring my group, as their auras were strong enough to withstand it.

  RUMBLE!

  The grouh us shattered as I felt the immense power of Mursha pushing me down into the ground; she was mighty, amazing even.

  She erfect.

  I want her as my disciple!

  “RAAAH!”

  With anhty, beastly roar, the beautiful orc warrior unleashed her rage and wrath at once, her eyes glowing bright red as she attacked me with her axe several times at orying to shatter my stany on with sheer might.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  Yet unlike Caesar, she wasn’t without dexterity or teique. Although the King’s swordsmanship teiques abused their bloodline powers and brutal force to release devastating attacks, Mursha was both that and more.

  “URRAH!”

  With a ferocious roar, she swung her axe horizontally this time, trying to strike my ribs, which were unprotected like st time, aiming to send me flying into the air.

  However, this time I moved my hands with dexterity and delicacy, the movements of my sword resembling golden shat ed around her arm and her axe.

  K!

  Her axe was reflected by my sword’s blog attack as I ged my stao a more active role, rushing forward as I took ten steps forward.

  “I reize your incredible strength, Mursha! You’re an amazing woman!”

  “GUH?!”

  Mursha started to lose her footing as the movements of my sword became erratic to her, moving like a golden snake and then striking with tremendous force, like the deadly bites of these small predatory reptiles.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  “However…”

  I imbued more Ki into my sword, my aura transf pletely, revealing the form of a-headed white and gold-colored snake.

  “{Yin and Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Heave-Headed Serpent Bde: Orochi}”

  “SHAAAH!”

  The eight-headed serpent hissed furiously, g against Mursha’s axe teiques. At the same time, as I moved my hands and my bde, eight blows reached the oran within.

  CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

  “Ugh…! AARRGH!”

  Mursha struggled, trying to overy bde arts, swinging her gigantic axe and unshing explosive shockwaves of crimson energy.

  However, I sshed them away as Orochi titag her; her body was covered not in sshing attacks but in bite marks.

  This teique allowed my sword to bee like the fangs of a snake, and it also came with venom made out of densed, liquefied Ki.

  “Aagh! M-My arms…?!”

  She quickly realized her muscles began to grow paralyzed; she couldn’t move as much as she wanted. I pushed forward, quickly sshiomach, chest, and legs.

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  “Uuuaaaggh!”

  She screamed in pain, being pushed back as she was covered by more and more wounds. Her aura grew stronger, but without the ability to even move her body, it was useless.

  “It’s my victory, Mursha. You fought well.”

  I rushed towards her and, with my bare fists, punched her stomach.

  BAAAM!

  “Uaagh?!”

  She vomited blood, and then her eyes rolled, losing sciousness at that moment.

  Her enormous body fell over mihough, creating a rather awkward situation.

  “Aahh… She’s quite heavy indeed,” I sighed. “Um, Mursha? I’ll heal you so you stand up.”

  I started healing her body, and then she slowly opened her eyes, widening them.

  “Ah! … I lost?”

  “Yes, you lost.”

  “I… You’re incredible!”

  “Am I? Well, thank you.”

  “I’ve never faced another woman so powerful; I always thought I was the only female at my level... But you surpassed me, Bing Xue!”

  “There are many strong women all across the Tower, I am sure... Um, Mursha, dear, how about you stand up?”

  Her face was so close to mihat I could feel her warm breath in my mouth.

  “Oh?”

  Then she smiled mischievously.

  “What? Are you embarrassed?”

  I wouldn’t say embarrassed; I would admit I was quite aroused, in fact.

  Of course, I ’t just tell her that.

  “N-No at all... Ahem, but people are watg; you stand up again, right?”

  “I feel like ying over the grass for a while; you’re warm too; I like you.”

  “You do?!”

  “What is there to not like? You’re strong aiful.”

  “Well, thanks…”

  I am still trying to get used to beautiful women flirting so much with me.

  Well, it isn’t as if that didn’t happen in Murim, but in Murim, they always had ulterior motives or were being forced by their masters.

  However, she’s getting a bit too coow.

  “Up you go!”

  I quickly lifted her to free myself from her big, heavy body, carrying her in my arms like a princess.

  “Uwaah! W-What are you doing?! I’m not a little girl to be carried like this!”

  She pined but didn’t really fight me to free herself from my grasp.

  Mursha had a cute side.

  “You say that, but you seem rather happy I am carrying you, aren’t you, Mursha? You’re a bit cute.”

  “C-Cute?! How dare you call an orc warrior cute?”

  She quickly freed herself from my arms, kig my stomach at the same time.

  It didn’t hurt at all, though she had enough force to push me a bit back.

  Damn, I love strong women.

  As she freed herself, I saw my group rushing towards me and the rest of the spectators g after seeing su amazing fight.

  “S-She won…!”

  “Mursha lost?!”

  “W-What did I just see?!”

  “She’s incredible!”

  “I have never seen such a powerful warrior in years! It looks like Earth still has some good talents out there.

  “Indeed! Mursha is one of our stro, yet she was humiliated by that much smaller, yet mightier woman!”

  “Bravo! I love bloody fights!”

  “Though she’s too soft, she spared her life; how strange!”

  They sure loved to see blood; these people had bee savages on their owo all these War Games. And nothing is saying there aren’t other members of that Barbarian God Cult here.

  “You won, Bing Xue! Well done!” Peperina gratuted me. “I knew you would win anyway, but that fight was incredible.”

  “I had never seen such a teique before; your swordsmanship is truly endless!” said Urbosa.

  “Yeah! Just how many hidden teiques do you have, honey?” ughed Merkite.

  “It was indeed surprising; that oran was very strong, though not as powerful as the Primal King,” Seth said.

  He’s not saying anything more than seeing how well he did against the Primal King; he might have also won if he had e prepared enough.

  He’s like Batman; give him enough prep time, and there’s little he ’t beat.

  Anyways.

  “So?” I asked Mursha. “Do I pass?”

  “Of course you do,” Mursha said, crossing her arms and sighing. “And to think you even healed me back! I feel utterly humiliated.”

  “The same thing was said by the King,” said Urbosa. “Do all of you warriors of honor feel humiliation when spared?”

  “I ’t really rete to such feelings myself,” said Merkite. “I would only be grateful and happy to be spared and be given a sed ce.”

  “Hahaha! I suppose you deserters wouldn’t uand the Pride and Honor of a Warrior in these nds!” ughed Mursha. “Here in Elios, a Warrior’s Pride and Honor meaHING! That I ared and healed means I am humiliated by Bing Xue; by my s and culture, it would mean that I now belong to her, even.”

  “Belong to me?!” I asked. “Mursha, please…”

  “I knoeople from other worlds are softies, so I will not enforce my beliefs and culture into yours,” said Mursha with a loud tone of voice. “heless, I owe you a lot now. To restore my honor, I will serve you as a warrior and an ally if you allow me.”

  “Thank you,” I nodded. “Does this mean I ow form my fa without choosing the other three?”

  “Ah! "Right, I had fotten that was the whole point, hahaha!” ughed Mursha. “Yes! You ow make your own fa! Naturally, as the general, I must join you in battle too. However, there’s a problem: even with me, you still don’t have enough members! A fa requires at least fifty people.”

  “That shouldn’t be a problem at all.” I nodded with a smile. “After all, I do have a lot of friends tht everyone?”

  I opened a golden-colored portal to my Inner Realm, revealing a huge army of mighty, primal people. Muscur and strong, with skin as bck as charcoal, fiery red eyes and hair resembling fmes, and white or red tattoos across their chiseled bodies.

  Only wearing the minimum requirements of clothing after I forced them to not walk almost hey started wearing clothes made of animal pelt, fur, and bone armor; nothing else would make them feel fortable.

  These were mighty prehistoric humans from a parallel Earth, one where dinosaurs never weinct, and one where a strange power mutated everything into overpowered creatures.

  “Here we are, Bing Bing!” Fiery Hair ran to my side, smiling and hugging me. “Fiery hair brought all family! The fight for Bing Bing! Right, family?!”

  She roared back at her family; they roared back at her.

  “OOOOHHH!”

  “FIGHT!”

  “WOOOH!”

  “BATTLE!”

  “READY WE ARE!”

  Their tremendous size, enormously strong, fiery Auras, and their appearances, which screamed “mighty warriors” everywhere, quickly caught the attention of the rest of the orcs.

  “Are those humans?!”

  “I have never seen humans like that!”

  “Aren’t they all tiny rats?”

  “How is this possible? Where did they e from?”

  They couldn’t believe these people were all, in fact, the humans they looked down on so much.

  Mursha g me with disbelief and shock.

  “Y-You summon people here?! H-How?!” she asked.

  “Hahaha, we talk about that ter in more detail,” I said, smiling. “Now, I register these friends of mine?”

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  Pach